Russia, reading, dogs, cheese, rocks...
Karen, Sarah and Ana for pints in London...oh, and Regis Philbin.
Tool, Depeche Mode, Oasis, B.R.M.C., U2, Air, Sigur Ros, Royksopp, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Deftones, At the Drive In, Mars Volta, Massive Attack, Jeff Buckley, Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, Luther Wright and the Wrongs, Tears for Fears, Smiths, Interpol, White Stripes, A Perfect Circle, NIN, The Verve, Joy Division/New Order, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead..., Snow Patrol, Muse, Zero 7
A Clockwork Orange, The Last of the Mohicans, Shawshank Redemption, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sunshine, Romper Stomper, American History X, The Return, The Cranes are Flying, Night Watch, Edward Scissorhands, Pulp Fiction, Donnie Darko, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter, Nightmare Before Xmas, Last Tango in Paris, The Elephant Man, Requiem for a Dream, Jude, Everything Is Illuminated, Harold and Maude, The Fox and the Hound, Jesus Christ Superstar, Closer, Heat, Quills
24 is the greatest show EVER, followed closely by Six Feet Under, CSI, ER, Lost, Carnivale, Deadwood, Nip/Tuck, Prison Break, Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Clone High...oh yeah, and Big Brother (I even watched the Russian version while I was there)
House of Leaves, The Ogre, Master and Margarita, In the Skin of a Lion, Mercy Among the Children, Barney's Version, Blindness, The Great Gatsby, Night, We, any early Sci-Fi dystopian novels (1984, Midwich Cuckoos, Brave New World, The Crysalids), any of William Blake's illuminated texts (more for the art), Survivor, Nights at the Circus, anything by Edward Gorey...
FDR, the Russian People, the children/teenagers of Soweto 1976, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Sheila Fitzpatrick